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@FliegepilzHut: WOW!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for you! Grow, bean, grow!! I know it's early, and with a history of IF and loss, you're probably holding your breath, but what a wonderful, happy start to December for you! I'm hoping for nothing but smooth sailing for you and your baby!

I'm out officially - AF just showed up. This one really hurts, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do next. My heart and my body hurt.

@FliegepilzHut: Thank you We're meeting with the fertility specialists on Weds 12/17, so we'll see what they say.

How are you feeling? I haven't been on HB in a few days because of Mom's surgery & C has croup.

@FliegepilzHut: I can only imagine that symptom spotting is in overdrive! When do you have your next beta? I hope your bean is snuggling in nicely for a long (enough) stay!

RE tomorrow! LO is better, but now DH and I are sick, so no visits to Mom. She's doing pretty well, but having crazy hallucinations that the Drs don't understand yet. Funny, but not good, if that makes sense. Talking to her on the phone is always an adventure. We're still hoping she'll be able to come home Christmas Day!

@FliegepilzHut: That would have made me crazy! I can't believe they didn't send it for same-day processing. Have you heard anything more?

Mom had some complicated GI surgery. Basically they removed 90% of her stomach and almost all of the chest portion of her esophagus. So she's left with a small tube-shaped stomach that is connected to her esophagus high up in her chest. They also widened the piloric sphincter (between the stomach & small intestine) so that her stomach has an easier time emptying. She had a fair amount of scar tissue from earlier surgeries, so her liver & stomach were stuck in the scar tissue, which complicated things a bit. She also had a hiatal hernia (hole too large in the diaphragm), so they closed that up. She has an n-g tube in her nose (to help drain from her stomach while she's not allowed to swallow), 2 chest tubes, a feeding tube (which has gotten infected, unfortunately), and a couple of IVs, plus a thoracic epidural to mute the pain from the 3 incision sites (one on her back, one on her side, and one down the middle of her chest / stomach). Crazy surgery - took almost 12 hours!

She's doing pretty well, but is really hoping they'll pull the n-g and chest tubes today. She has a swallow test sometime today and if she passes, they'll take them out. Fingers crossed!

Oh, and they figured out the hallucinations - they were from some anti-nausea medicine they were giving her. They've changed that medication, and the hallucinations have stopped.

How are you?